Pittsburgh (PA) Daily Post, "The Negro Party - Some Proofs," August 20, 1856

   THE NEGRO PARTY - - SOME PROOFS.

    We have said that the Black Republican party is the party of the negroes--that all its sympathies and energies are devoted to the task of elevating the negro race to a condition of entire political and social equality with the white race of this country. To do that we contend, and many of them admit, that practical amalgamation is necessary. We proceed now to give some proofs that such is the one aim of the so-called "Republican" party--the party that supports John C. Fremont. True, the greater portion of the party consists of Know Nothings who hate the "Dutch and Irish." But the one absorbing idea with them now is the negroes; and to prove that the negroes are as good as the whites in every respect, and to place them in an exactly equal, social and political condition is their one aim. Our proofs consist of extracts well authenticated. 

   We find the following from the Cleveland Plaindealer, of the 17th inst."

    "To see where Black Republicanism leads; first, to the abolition of Slavery in the South, and the overrunning of the North with runaway Blacks; and also to see where there mad schemes are to end, to wit, in the deterioration of the Whites, and the amalgamation of the races, we copy from a leading Fremont man, Giddings' right bow in Ashtabula, the Hon. Cadwell, a member of the present Ohio Legislature. Here it is.

   "I thank God that the time has come in Ohio, when it is no longer a disgrace to avow the sentiment that the Negro is the White man's equal and entitled to the same political and social privileges."

   [Extract of Hon. Cadwell's speech in the Ohio Legislature, 1856.]

   THat is from the reported and published speech of Mr. Cadwell, of the Ashtabula district. 

   The Cincinnati Enquirer extracts the following from Zeitung, a German Republican paper in Illinois:

   "In our view of the principles of the Republicans, we know of no inferiority of race in regard to social and civil rights. In our eye the negro and the white races stand side by side and on an equality. The depreciating inferiority of the negro race exists only in the theory of the so-called Democratic party of this country."

   That is a German editor's views of the case. We now extract from the Dayton Empire [Re]publican) a few sentences to show how Republicans in that vicinity compare negroes with those same Germans whose votes they are courting. The Empire says:

   "A Fremont Black Republican, whose name we have, said to a Democrat on Monday that 'he would rather his daughter should marry a nigger than a Dutchman any day."

   "Another the same day told another Democrat that 'a nigger was a d--d sight better than a Dutchman all the same.'

   Yet another of the same stripe told the Probate Judge of this country, a day or two ago, 'that he would not feel at liberty to object to his daughter marrying a respectable negro, no more than if he were white.' This is the way Fremont men talk."

   Henry Clay some years ago said that abolitionism would lead inevitably to amalgamation of blacks and whites. 

   It will be seen by the above extracts that the work of preparing the public mind for amalgamation is commenced by asserting that "a negro is better than a Dutchman." And another man says "he would rather let his daughter marry a negro than a Dutchman."

   And in this one frantic pursuit of the purpose to elevate the negro race to a full equality with the white race the abolition of southern slavery becomes necessary. And we quote a few sentences to show how ripe the Black Republican mind is for that event, by force if necessary. Joshua R. Giddings has been for many years a member of Congress from Ohio. Several years ago he made a speech in Congress in which the following language was used by him, and reported and published:

   "I look forward to the day when there shall be a servile insurrection in the South; when the black man, armed with British bayonets, and led on by British officers, shall assert his freedom, and wage a war of extermination against the master; when the torch of the incendiary shall light up the towns and cities of the South, and blot out the last vestige of slavery; and though I may not mock at their calamity, nor laugh when their fear cometh, yet I will hail it as the dawn of a political millenium [millennium]."

   For uttering these "treasonable words" Mr. Giddings was expelled from Congress by a very large vote. And what said his black republican constituents? Did they sustain him in his treason? They did. They immediately re-nominated him, and re-elected him to Congress. This same Giddings was a leading spirit in the Convention that nominated Fremont.

   Another of the leaders in that Convention was Judge Rufus P. Spalding, of Ohio: and in his speech there he said:

   "In case of the alternative being presented, of a continuance of slavery or a dissolution of the Union, I am for a dissolution, and I care not how quick it comes."

   N.P. Banks, whom the republicans elected the Speaker of the House of Representatives, said in a speech in Maine within two years:

   "I am willing under a certain state of circumstances, TO LET THE UNION SLIDE."

   Here are some more of the same sort:

   "We earnestly request Congress, at its present session, to take such initiatory measures for the speedy, peaceful, and equitable dissolution of the existing Union, as the exigencies of the case may require."--Black Republican petition to Congress.

   "The Union is not worth supporting in connection with the South."--Horace Greeley.

   "The Constitution is a reproach and a league with Tophet."--William Lloyd Garrison.

   It is well known that in the New England States numerous petitions for a dissolution of the Union are now in circulation, and that a large number of signatures are obtained. We might continue our extracts to any extent to show that the elevation of the African race to an entire equality with the white race in this country is the one aim of Black Republicanism. And to accomplish that the total Abolition of Slavery is resolved upon; and a dissolution of the Union is sought as a means of emancipating the slaves. And how would that affect it. Why, with the Union sundered there would no longer be a fugitive slave law or means of re-capturing slaves, and a general stampede of Southern negroes to the North would be the result. They would come here by the thousands to compete with the white men in the labor market. They must have work, or fill our poor houses. Do the white people of the Northern States want such a vast accession of such a population? Then, remember, the next step, according to Mr. Cadwell and the party he labors for, is to prove that "the negro is the white man's equal, and entitled to the same political and social privileges."

   Is it not true then, that the Republican party is the Negro party; and the Democratic party of the white race, devoted to all the best interests of the twenty-three millions of white people of this country?